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I am looking for information about THE HILL located in St Louis, Mo. My great grandmother and her first husband came there from Sicilia. They divorced or maybe he died, and she remarried around the turn of the century. The new husband (Dowl), became the rest of the story and the husband seems to be erased from history. My oldest relatives confirm that an intentional record purge was done of bibles, etc. even they don't know why, but remember being firmly told to never speak of the Italian ancestry. My mother used to say she was Cherokee Indian. Her name was Marcella. I would love to find someone with turn of the century information about this Italian neighborhood.